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- Thread starter Blaithin
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- southern riverina Australia
averageguy54
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- Location
- New Brunswick, Canada
How many of those can you fill in the run of a day?
We did 103 yesterday. About 8.5 hours of actual loading. Then a few more dinking around with the train.
2wheels
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- Location
- aberdeenshire
i think the wife counted 140 wagons on a train in alberta/saskatchewan. i was busy driving. i suppose that was a small train? longing to go back again.
140 would probably be fairly average out on the prairie. Can get up to around 160 I think. It all depends on season, weather, materials, etc.
averageguy54
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- New Brunswick, Canada
Just read the weather. Thursday night and all day Friday, 15-25 cm snow. Just what we need in the middle of mud season! I'm glad I retired.
. Thursday night and all day Friday, 15-25 cm snow. Just what we need in the middle of mud season! I'm glad I retired.Ground is getting wet wherever there is ground showing. Or I guess it's more that where there's straw or hay on the snow it's getting wet. Don't think it's down to the ground yet ? So the bedding pile is a little island of not much dry. The calves think it's great when the cows get fed, three for three had their little pile of hay staked out.
- Location
- West Yorkshire
Is everything we see in the pics either hay or straw besides the snow from over winter ?
How many in your herd this winter and how big/small of a area do they get once the freeze sets in ?
There all looking I excellent condition. ?
How many in your herd this winter and how big/small of a area do they get once the freeze sets in ?
There all looking I excellent condition. ?
Thanks!
If I’m not forgetting anyone there’s 8 cows, the bull and 6 of last years calves and the edible steer. Although two of the cows didn’t arrive until February. They have access to about half of the acreage but they don’t usually use it. Once the snow gets deep they have their paths. Bed to food to water, they don’t go far. The calves have been in the corral most of the winter with free food access. The fat beef animals have been in the larger area for their daily rationing and then the nurse cows have been in their own area for their daily rations. They do get moved around and put together and every day is different
In this photo you can see their trails. They can go out behind that tree line as well but they only do that if we take the food out there. On the right the bull is coming from their bedding pile. On the left are two yearlings at the scratching tree.
Yes, everything in the photos of hay or straw from this winter. It’s not even all of it since there’s a few older bedding piles that are buried. If you look along the tree line that’s bare ground peaking through but everything else is from winter.
Hazel is the one in the poorest condition which doesn’t really surprise me as we only got her a year ago and their first winter in my “program” usually is their worst as they adapt. She isn’t too bad even considering that and seems to have bred back easily last year. This year will be the one she falls back a bit. She looks like she’ll calve within the next week. Bonus for her is her hair colour hides her skinniness
- Location
- southern riverina Australia
So you do have trees
Those trees are the reason it was assumed I live in a treed area!So you do have trees
They're native prairie trees, naturally grow in straight lines that are species specific
- Location
- southern riverina Australia
Sure you didnt photoshop them in
FonterraFarmer
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- Waikato, New Zealand
If it's photochopped , then someone's been to a hell of a lot of effort in trying to get the shadows right!!!?Sure you didnt photoshop them in
How bout fencingnoff an area and planting some more?
- Location
- southern riverina Australia
And you would think she could at least photoshop some decent looking trees I guess sometimes you just have to work with what you've got
I guess sometimes you just have to work with what you've gotprimmiemoo
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- Location
- Devon
How bout fencingnoff an area and planting some more?
The local trees might object? Highly specialized native trees have a way of blocking new plantings, I'd've thought.
Dunno but cant beat a nice tree to sit under in the midday sun